Good for you, Ricky Martin

[lissafay]

http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/132331/ricky-martin-i-am-a-fortunate-homosexual-man/

I can almost feel his giant sigh of relief.  I remember that relief.  Nobody's reaction matters that much, because it's all about being free from hiding information.

Comments

[lissafay]

I was thinking about that exactly in relation to you right after I made this post. I was also thinking...there can't be that many out Puerto Rican celebrities. Are there? I wonder if the advent of more openly queer celebrities could have a longterm, gradual impact on the cultural perception of queerness. What do you think?

I don't blame him for hiding either. Even though the cultural problems are rather heavy, did you find that you breathed a bit of a sigh of relief when you came out?

[lissafay]

Huuuuge relief at first, because it had taken so much work to hide for all the years that I'd tried to hide. And then I was mad because Mom didn't reply to my coming out at all. It was years later when she finally said anything about it, and it wasn't good at all.

I still feel quite relieved that I don't feel the need to hide anymore, actually...and I've been out to Mom now for around six years, or something like that.